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Bahrain Television just aired the government's account of today's pre-dawn raid on protesters gathered at Pearl Roundabout in the capital Manama, which left five people dead, scores injured and up to 60 people missing and still unaccounted for.

The programme also showed graphic footage of injuries to security forces, as well as arms, ammunition and swords said to belong to protesters. Meanwhile the debate continues in the Bahraini twittersphere on what happened early this morning and why.

Here is a snapshot of reactions:

@BahrainRights: “@AJELive: @AJEnglish deaths from latest clashes have risen to five #Bahrain. Parademic says most patients at hospital have head injuries”

anyone who no nothing about forensic and watch CSI show will know that all of this is fabricated , the type of wounds they showed don’t resemble the knifes and guns they show , we all know that to detect any weapon you must know the depth and width of the cut wounds , and for the bullets , they showed only one policeman who was shot by the gun they showed and they are about 8 empty used bullets and the affected area only has one opening and even this there must be specific marks , tell if it used recently or not ,, we’re not that expert but we can tell what is real and what is fabricated !
i wish they do their forensic job well and tell us we are seeking for truth , they only showed victim from their side and there are hundreds of injured people ..
we’re not against you we just need the truth , and we’re sure that our ministry of military have logical and reasonable explaination for what happened their